(NewsNation) — Meghan Markle’s fashion dream may be about to come true.
When Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman and Beyoncé were announced as the hosts of next year’s Met Gala, whispers in Montecito started that maybe this would be the year that Meghan and Prince Harry get invited to mingle among the fashion world’s crème de la creme.
Meghan is, after all, good friends with Venus’ sister, Serena, and has made inroads with Beyoncé over the years as well.
Meghan met Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z at “The Lion King” premiere in London in 2019, and Beyoncé later texted Markle after the couple gave their infamous interview to Oprah Winfrey, saying how “brave” the Duchess was.
Meghan returned the favor by showing up to Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour in 2023 and her Cowboy Carter Tour in 2025.
However, there are no paparazzi photos, vacations or repeated private sightings of Beyoncé and Meghan, suggesting the two do not have a deep off-camera friendship.
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But at least Markle, who has been trying to crack the fashion world since showing up at the Balenciaga show in Paris this fall, has a shot.
”Two tangential friends are hosting, she could go,” a fashion source said.
However, the gala is also being funded by Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos, who held Kris Kardashian’s 70th birthday party at their home last month, which turned into a Meghan/Harry debacle.
The erstwhile royals had the Kardashians take down all Instagram photos of them at the party. The pics had caused a massive brouhaha in the U.K. as the party was held the night before Remembrance Day — a solemn occasion in the country.
Prince Harry and Meghan arrive at the Ripple of Hope Award Gala in Nev York on Dec. 06, 2022. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) 
FILE – Beyonce appears at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston, on Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) 
A spandex bodysuit by Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck from a 2009 collection, right, is displayed during the announcement, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, about the next spring fashion exhibit “Costume Art,” which is set to launch at the Met Gala in 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The issue for the Bezos and Kardashian clan was that the Sussex clan first told the media the pics had to be taken down as the couple didn’t sign a release (The Kardashians said there was no release) … and the ensuing kerfuffle made Kris’ big day all about Harry and Meghan, not the Kardashian matriarch.
“Everything they do seems to become a PR disaster — and even at someone else’s event, it always becomes about them,” one Hollywood denizen said.
Anna Wintour allegedly not a Meghan Markle supporter
Not to mention, Vogue ice queen Anna Wintour is said not to be a fan.
Wintour never gave Meghan an American Vogue cover — or previously invited her to the Gala. Wintour is said to be closer to Harry’s family, the (actual) British royal family.
Wintour was also said to be irked after a disagreement about a potential 2022 British Vogue cover for the Duchess went awry.
FILE – Vogue editor Anna Wintour attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” exhibition on May 6, 2019, in New York. Come Monday, May 1, 2023, Karl Lagerfeld’s legacy will be on display at the Met Gala and the starry fundraising party’s companion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. This year’s five hosts include Wintour, as usual, along with Michaela Coel, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer and Dua Lipa. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) 
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 10: Anna Wintour is seen leaving the Ralph Lauren show during September 2025 New York Fashion Week on September 10, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)
Meghan, who had guest edited a 2019 cover for British Vogue while she was still a part of the royal family, fell out with British Vogue editor Edward Enninful after she made “impossibly demands” for the supposed 2022 cover, such as wanting editorial control and a global cover; demands that couldn’t be met as Linda Evangelista had already been booked for that cover.
“Nobody gets (editorial control or global covers). Not even Beyoncé,” a source told Page Six. Meghan even went so far as to insist on a Zoom call with Wintour over the cover — which, while Wintour did it to be “polite”, irked the editrix.
It remains to be seen if Beyoncé or Venus will stick their neck out for the Duchess in May. But, according to Vogue, the Costume Art themed gala will still be chock full.
The event boasts Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz, who will co-chair the Met Gala Host Committee, with additional members including Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, LISA, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson and Yseult.
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